When Faith Turns Into Force—Classrooms, Communities and Extremism
Examining the growing divide between ordinary Muslims and radical Islamist Ideaology. An American look at Islam, Zionism, and the Community's caught in between
Guest Opinion by Sherrie Saunders
The issue between a radicalized Islamist and an ordinary Islamic or Muslim individual is night and day.
A radicalized Islamist is someone who feels the need to force you to accept their views, insist they have rights above others, and declare that their God is superior. They communicate this in many ways — sometimes through violence, sometimes through Jihad, and sometimes by taking over entire cities through concentrated ethnic-Muslim immigration and pushing out American Christians. This creates an environment of radicalized Islamists on Main Street.
These individuals expect their rights to practice their religion however they choose — and they expect to be paid for it. Free housing, free food, and free monthly expenses — all covered by American “infidel” taxpayers. And they expect this for one main reason:
They have watched American taxpayers support Israeli Zionists who they believe have raped, murdered, and stolen from Muslims for over 75 years. They want a slice of that pie.
The Zionist violence in Israel against Muslim and Christian Palestinians since the 1947 Nakba is well documented. Yet almost no one has intervened to stop the genocide that continues today. Many Jewish people who identify as Zionists have no Semitic blood, no ancestral ties to Israel or Palestine, and yet Americans are taught to believe they are entitled to that land — largely due to the Scofield Bible translation pushed through American churches in the early 1900s.
And because of that narrative, the ongoing violence against ethnic Semitic Muslims — whose DNA is tied to the land for thousands of years — is ignored. MAGA Republicans have shown they do not care. So have many Evangelicals and Scofield-Bible Christians. None of them cared that Israeli and American bombing campaigns throughout the Middle East helped cause the Islamic immigration crisis in Europe — one that has destabilized cities and entire countries.
Instead of a Free Palestine, a Free Syria, a Free Lebanon — places where Muslims could live safely according to their own customs — we now have: Militant Islam murdering Christians in Africa and beyond, Militant Judaism, hijacked by Zionism, murdering Christians and Muslims in the Middle East—and the cycle of violence teaches only more violence. Not peace. Not love.
Radicalized ideology shows up even in American schools. In places like Minnesota, children and adults alike chant “Death to America.” These immigrants fled Somalia not as defenders of their own nation, but as individuals unwilling to fight for their homeland or their families — yet now scream for America’s destruction. They cling to the most radical language of the Quran and embrace doctrines that encourage the killing of the infidel.
“Death to America” is not an accident. It is a plan.
The Quran is clear: convert the infidel or kill them.
And the Talmud says the same regarding the “Goyim” (infidel Christians) and Muslims.
In schools with only Jewish or only Muslim children, one lesson repeats: hate the Other. Hate their religion.
We like to believe peace, love, and God could be taught alongside math, science, and literature. But in America, the Christian God has been removed from schools. So why allow Allah in schools where Jesus is not allowed? Why segregate by ideology when segregation by race is illegal?
For over 15 years, American Muslims have told me how they feel. I genuinely feel sorry for the peaceful Muslim individuals who have never committed Jihad, planted a bomb, or engaged in child marriage. They too have suffered under the weight of radicalized ideology within their own communities. Many avoid forming large ethnic enclaves exactly to avoid the radicalized environments that tend to arise.
It’s unfortunate, but true: we cannot trust an Alabama school full of children to avoid radicalization.
That’s why Americans chose integration — by Supreme Court and Constitutional order — to protect Black, Brown, and White children alike. Allowing parents, clergy, imams, or rabbis to teach religion on their own time is not enough for some. But for the radicals, peace, love, and God are not the priority.
Our children deserve to learn together, play together, and make friendships across religions in spite of radical influences — not be separated by imported hatred.
Because one thing is clear: the adults have proven they cannot do this.
Despite a lifetime of learning, they cannot live in peace.
Sherrie Saunders has been a Advocate for Alabama's citizens for over 30 years. Her work includes Parental Rights, Disability Advocacy, Environmentalism, Health Freedom and Civil rights Advocacy. She has appeared in three documentaries and a PBS news special report. Her work is mentioned in several published books.
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